drinking and rescinded acceptance

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<p>Right now I’m a high school senior and have been fortunate enough, with four years of hard work and with the help of many of my teachers and my guidance counselor, to receive an acceptance letter from Stanford. A few days ago I confirmed my enrollment and sent in my deposit.</p>

<p>I’m pretty much in excellent standing both academically and in the community. I’m the valedictorian at my school, class vice president and, I mean, I basically have the school on my side, if that makes sense.</p>

<p>About six weeks ago, I was at a party and I sort of, through a combination of inexperience and stupidness, drank too much and got alcohol poisoning. I wound up in the Emergency Room and my parents had to come get me. I don’t think any police reports were filed or anything. I guess the police just decided to let me go because I guess they figured I had learned my lesson (I did).</p>

<p>I was punished by my parents, and I don’t think they’ll ever quite trust me as much as they once did. Kids at school went through the motions of gossiping, as I sort of expected. Not that I was the first student to wind up at a hospital, but I was definitely the first overachieving, valedictorian, Stanford aceptee to do so. I guess I was a paradox.</p>

<p>I thought it was all over. People stopped talking about me and my parents ungrounded me. But then today, my counselor, the one who had written the letter that probably had a lot to do with why Stanford accepted me, called a conference with me and my parents. I thought it was something to do with a scholarship, but as it turned out, she had found out about my hospital visit. She said that she still stood by her letter to Stanford, but that I should worry about Stanford somehow finding out from a disgruntled waitlisted student or something. She said that my behavior should be impeccable and that I should worry about rescinsion.</p>

<p>I’m wondering if Stanford could actually rescind my acceptance based on this. I’ve been charged with nothing, and I was a minor at the time (17). The only record of this happening exists in my medical records, which I’m assuming are quite private. If someone did notify Stanford, I think it would be pretty unsubstantiated. I know there’s one or two people at my school who would love to see me get rescinded. I’m wondering how far they could actually take this. I’m pretty sure there’s a picture or two of me drinking if they looked hard enough. Would Stanford even rescind me if it could be proven? I know Stanford’s pretty liberal when it comes to alcohol and such, but is that only once you’re on campus?</p>

<p>I don’t know. I’m pretty worried. I just want to know if you guys know anything that could help me.</p>

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<p>Dont worry about it. Youd be hard pressed to find a senior in hs who doesn’t drink.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t worry. As you said, there is no factual proof of it. It’s only in your medical records, which are VERY private.</p>

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<p>Yeah seriously… college admission officials aren’t idiots, they know that people drink. Most likely, they’ll scorn the person reporting you and will ignore it… there’s no proof anyway except for a little high school rumor (which I HIGHLY doubt college adcomms will rescind someone over… rumor CONFIRMED or not.)</p>

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<p>They couldn’t reject you for getting alcohol poisoning. They can not reject you due to rumors since your medical records are private.</p>

<p>Please, be careful. A CC member named Lucifer, a freshman from St. Louis who went to Cornell, died of alcohol poisoning last year after a party at U Virginia. You can find CC threads and posts by Lucifer and about his death. You also can confirm his death through Google as the St. Louis paper did a story on him including about his CC postings in which he had said drank heavily, but knew how to handle liquor. Some CC parents, including an ER doctor, tried to warn him, but Lucifer ignored their warnings.</p>

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<p>You can say it was a medical emergency, and the hospital has no right to tell anyone why you were there</p>

<p>How did the GC find out anyway, I would wonder about that.</p>

<p>In this case, no need to affirm anything that happened even if Stanford somehow hears…it will come across as a rumor…</p>

<p>Picture the phone call:</p>

<p>Hey, Stanford, did you know that bananamonkey got drunk and ended up in the hospital? And you admitted them? Um, no, no police report, um, heard it threw the grapevine, um,no real proof…</p>

<p>Anyway, get rid of those pictures, search and delete, and ask your friends if any have them to get rid of them, if they are in them, it can affect them</p>

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<p>bananamonkey, your medical records are private and I seriously doubt you would be rescinded. I’m glad you survived the incident.</p>

<p>SweetLax88, I take strong exception to your statement that “you’d be hard pressed to find a senior in hs who doesn’t drink.” On the contrary, there are MANY hs seniors who choose not to drink. This study <a href=“http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r061228.htm?s_cid=mediarel_r061228_x”>http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r061228.htm?s_cid=mediarel_r061228_x&lt;/a&gt; by the CDC indicated that 45% of the students surveyed drank during the previous month… which means that 65% did NOT drink. Interesting article, BTW.</p>

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<p>Here is a thread about the CCer “Lucifer11287” who died of alcohol poisoning.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=159778&highlight=Read[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=159778&highlight=Read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yea ArkansasMom, I mean you’d be hard pressed to find a HS/Frosh College’er who hasn’t drank in a year. I havent drank in…come to think of it…since the summer…</p>

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<p>Yes, we should talk about lucifer…what a sad thing…you were lucky, you lived</p>

<p>We have at our school a program where kids share their stories- some were anorexics, some drug abusers, etc…and they publically tell what happened, and they got into some amazing schools, and everyone knows what happened…it helps others to know they can step forward an ask for help without repurcussions so long as they take responsibilty, and my guess is Stanford would be the same</p>

<p>Your GCer’s reaction was interesting…that she was concerend about twits at her school who would try an sabotage you shows a problem at your school</p>

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<p>I hate kids who can’t hold their liquor!</p>

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<p>Looks like you have a lot of jealous students who are trying to ruin you. Don’t let it worry you, just walk with your head up, you made it into Stanford, congrats!</p>

<p>Oh and btw, don’t worry about being rescinded :)</p>

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<p>My brother was accepted to Brown even after he openly admitted to being arrested for alcohol possession his senior year. He wouldn’t have been arrested but he gave a fake name to the police (the fake name was the name of the police chief, so no, he wasn’t getting away with that one) which ****ed them off. So no, they won’t rescind.</p>

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<p>^ lol good story</p>

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<p>“Yea ArkansasMom, I mean you’d be hard pressed to find a HS/Frosh College’er who hasn’t drank in a year.”

  • raises hand
    —maybe its just my town but I know lots of HS seniors(inclusing myself) who don’t drink at all(ever!)
    -----god, I hope I don’t have to go to UCSB</p>
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<p>DanielR2007, my D raises her hand right along with you. As well as the vast majority of her friends. :-)</p>

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<p>My daughter raises her hand too! No interest - also val, NMF.</p>

<p>Same daughter was just this week telling me about a kid in her h.s. who went on the “annual spring break cruise”. Reportedly spent all his time drinking, urinating in the hallways (lovely), etc. He had been accepted to our local U with scholarship to play football - they revoked the scholarship AND the admission. Now he is left out in the cold. This situation is different than yours in that it is a small community and he was to attend local U. I am sure someone on the cruise let the college know what they had witnessed.</p>

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<p>You won’t get rescinded, congrats on getting into Stanford.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t think the event itself will cause any issue at Stanford, or anyone telling Stanford about the event either. The one way I could see an issue arising would be if you were not honest about the event somehow on your applciation and Stanford found out about it … the event itself would not be the problem but the application content would be.</p>

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<p>Here is what Stanford says on it’s website about recinding:

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